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This is what I want to go with for the spring 1.	Week 1 Vista 2.	Discussion 1 – media literacy 3.	Discussion 2 – copyright and fair use; Word processing/Excel due 4.	Discussion 3 – DOE ASAP 5.	Discussion 4 – Technology integration; Concept maps due 6.	Discussion 5 – Emerging technologies 7.	Discussion 6 – Learning spaces 8.	Grant Proposals due (midterm) 9.	Discussion 7 – Piracy 10.	Discussion 8 – Blogs and podcasts (subscribe to and report) 11.	Professional homepage due 12.	Discussion 9 – Online Instruction 13.	Discussion 10 - Assessment of Technology Projects (rubrics) 14.	WebQuests due; final presentations of WebQuests + 2-3 pages reflection on the course and what you learned; done in class or in Breeze Connect for online students.


 * Case One: Online Piracy and File Distribution**

Have your ever heard of allofMP3.com? Simply put, it is a site where anyone can download music, for very low prices, much lower than the Apple iTunes store or any other competitor. AllofMP3, hosted in Russia, sells music from millions of artists, including those like the Beatles who have not yet released the digital rights to their albums. What about Swedish [|thepiratebay.org], self-proclaimed the world's largest "bit-torrent" (or, open file-sharing) site on the Internet, that allows individuals to download feature films, software, and more for free? How are these sites able to do what they are doing lawfully? Do you think it is all right for them to share software and music without making people pay for their right to own them? Even if it is socially acceptable in Sweden and Russia to do these things, should the government of these countries honor the requests of other nations, like the U.S. to force these sites out of business? Investgiate the cases of ThePirateBay and AllofMP3 on [|Wikipedia]and any other sources you can find and report, in 1-2 pages, what you believe international and national laws state, as well as your personal feeling on the matter of file sharing and digital rights management. Be sure to cite your sources appropriately!


 * Case Two: Is it Fair Use?**

A second grade teacher from Missouri supplements his school budget by purchasing new storybooks on sale at local bookstores. Last year, this teacher purchased a very attractive and popular book of poetry by a well-known children's author. He made 35 copies of each poem from the book, sometimes printing on front and back to save paper, then filed them in his storybook file cabinet. This way, anytime he wants to use the poems in class, he has a copy for each student so that they can practice reading aloud during story time in his class. This seems to be a valuable thing for this teacher and his students, but is it legal? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and U.S. Copyright Law outline "[|fair use]" for educators and educational institutions - determine whether this use is legal under fair use doctrine and explain why you think it is or is not legal. If you don't think that this scenario falls under fair use, be sure to describe some other things the teacher could do in this situation to still leave his story time lessons intact, but acceptably under the law. Your report should be about 1-2 pages, and you should cite your sources.


 * Case Three: MySpace in the School (or Workplace)**

Consider this: you are a student or an office worker with nothing to do. Maybe you skipped class or you just finished the latest important report. It's not time to go home yet, but you do have access to a computer... maybe you'll sit down and add some comments to your MySpace page, you think. And while you're there, hopefully you will get a chance to chat with CrazyOne1996, who seems pretty nice and has been on your buddy list for a while now. You've never met him/her, but it is a lot of fun to share jokes and chat nonetheless, and it's a great way to waste a couple of hours. But, as you attempt to log in to your MySpace, you find out the site won't come up - it appears to have been blocked! What now? Is it even legal for them to do that? //You// certainly don't do anything inappropriate or "bad" on the Net, so why should you be punished for what others might be doing on their MySpaces? Of course, you //could// always find a way to defeat the filter... Take about 1-2 pages to talk about what you would do in this situation, how you feel about students and employees using the Internet (and not just MySpace but also YouTube, email, etc.) for personal interest during class/working hours, and whether it is acceptable for schools and businesses to block sites like MySpace from their local networks, or prevent users from accessing email. Use sources to back up your claims - a search for "blocking MySpace," for example, on Google offers some very interesting results...)

Week 4 Next, team them up into departments, each has a wiki page here Collaborate and each come up with 3 good lessons where they summarize what the lesson is about and reflect specifically on how the lesson objectives match with the standard Week 5 In the following week, each student comes up with his favorite lesson and describes how different technologies (blog, wiki, podcast, website, office suite, concept map) could be integrated - defend their answers to each other and instructor Week 6 Create a concept map to be used with one of the lessons from the collaboration; explain why the map matches the lesson and how it's to be used Week 7 Do the same as week 4 with PowerPoint, except add evaluation tactics using rubric creation methods from Rubistar, readings from book chapter to help them Week 8 Do the same as week 5 with podcast or blog subscription or development (describe, not necessarily create; creation can be EXCredit) Week 9-10 A grant proposal - given the lessons we're working on, develop a grant proposal for $30,000 to bring in needed technologies to the classroom, and how will they be used Week 11-12 Dreamweaver homepage, professional resume with links and info on their favorite blog or podcast that they have subscribed to, as well as Reflective Abstract Week 13-15 Development of a WebQuest - new creation rather than using existing lessons, using all that has been learned so far in the course, including standards, technology, rubrics for technology projects Peer presentation of their webquest and teach it to the class (or small groups) in class or over Breeze Connect

Things that are removed (still torn about): -Track Changes and other formatting tools in Word (page numbering and some other formatting items can be added to the week 2 assignment perhaps...) -APA citation (although this could be added as a small points rubric item in Week3) -use of the classroom vignettes from the book (we still have it next spring, and it IS availably by ebook for half the price of a printed book now - check out [|http://www.coursesmart.com/9780205614769/] - if we wanted to continue using it or we can just not adopt it for summer and fall...) -media literacy (we dropped it this semester, sort of miss it a bit)

One problem: NCATE and TaskStream rubrics We're using the WebQuest, Grant Presentation, and Homepage/Reflective Abstract assignment rubrics this semester. That means we probably have to continue using them at least until after NCATE review time So... we may actually have to leave those assignments as they are, which I almost did in this outline anyhow except the homepage and reflective abstract (went back in today and put that into the outline). Should it still fall at the end of the course then, as it is now, so that they have the WebQuest to reflect on as well???